The provincial healthcare expansion strategy in north Durham has advanced to its next major procurement phase. Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and Oak Valley Health have formally announced the prequalification of five elite construction consortiums eligible to bid on the massive Uxbridge Hospital Redevelopment 2026 project. The capital campaign will permanently alter rural medical access in the region, constructing a brand-new, state-of-the-art 140,000-square-foot hospital facility to completely replace the aging infrastructure currently sitting on the municipal campus.
The five corporate bidders successfully cleared an intensive Request for Qualifications (RFQ) process that commenced in December 2025. According to IO evaluators, each firm was selected based on verifiable historical experience managing complex, high-density healthcare projects, alongside demonstrating the immense balance sheet capacity required to sustain an infrastructure deployment of this magnitude.
The Prequalified Corporate Contenders
The exclusive shortlist of companies invited to submit binding construction proposals features some of Canada’s largest heavy industrial contractors:
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EBC Inc.
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EllisDon Corporation
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Maystar General Contractors Inc.
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Multiplex Construction Canada Ltd.
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Pomerleau Inc.
A formal Request for Proposals (RFP) is scheduled to hit the desks of these five firms in the summer of 2026. The independent evaluation team, working under the scrutiny of an appointed external fairness monitor, expects to finalize contract negotiations and name the winning corporate partner in the spring of 2027.
Double-Facility Structural Scope
The Uxbridge Hospital Redevelopment 2026 blueprint operates on a unique co-location model designed to tackle acute care shortages and chronic long-term care bed deficits simultaneously. The project is structured around a Design-Bid-Build model, meaning the architect and engineers of record are currently finalizing complete blueprint specifications, which the winning contractor will execute verbatim.
The upcoming infrastructure footprint features two major clinical anchors:
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Acute Hospital Expansion: The new hospital will scale up physical capacity by adding up to 11 new acute inpatient beds, bringing the campus total to 31 active beds. The building will significantly scale up the square footage allocated to emergency medicine, ambulatory care, the on-site pharmacy, and diagnostic laboratories, while introducing next-generation specialized suites for diagnostic imaging and cardiorespiratory therapy.
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Long-Term Care Home: Integrated directly onto the campus site, a brand-new, 192-bed long-term care facility will be erected to absorb long waiting lists for senior placement within northern Durham.
While the primary structural contract remains in the tender pipeline, early preparatory works and site servicing configurations are already actively moving on-site, building upon the initial ceremonial groundbreaking conducted by Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones. The multi-year project represents a foundational modernization effort, creating a centralized, high-volume health hub capable of servicing Uxbridge, Scugog, and peripheral rural corridors up to and beyond the mid-century horizon.
